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EP1719548A3
EP1719548A3 EP06013264A EP06013264A EP1719548A3 EP 1719548 A3 EP1719548 A3 EP 1719548A3 EP 06013264 A EP06013264 A EP 06013264A EP 06013264 A EP06013264 A EP 06013264A EP 1719548 A3 EP1719548 A3 EP 1719548A3
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light
liquid crystal
deflection pattern
light deflection
crystal panel
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French (fr)
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EP1719548A2 (en
EP1719548B1 (en
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Tatsuhiko Tanimura
Hirofumi Sekiguchi
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Universal Entertainment Corp
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Aruze Corp
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
    • G07F17/32—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for games, toys, sports, or amusements
    • G07F17/3202—Hardware aspects of a gaming system, e.g. components, construction, architecture thereof
    • G07F17/3204—Player-machine interfaces
    • G07F17/3211—Display means
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02F—OPTICAL DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF LIGHT BY MODIFICATION OF THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIA OF THE ELEMENTS INVOLVED THEREIN; NON-LINEAR OPTICS; FREQUENCY-CHANGING OF LIGHT; OPTICAL LOGIC ELEMENTS; OPTICAL ANALOGUE/DIGITAL CONVERTERS
    • G02F1/00—Devices or arrangements for the control of the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. switching, gating or modulating; Non-linear optics
    • G02F1/01—Devices or arrangements for the control of the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. switching, gating or modulating; Non-linear optics for the control of the intensity, phase, polarisation or colour 
    • G02F1/13—Devices or arrangements for the control of the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. switching, gating or modulating; Non-linear optics for the control of the intensity, phase, polarisation or colour  based on liquid crystals, e.g. single liquid crystal display cells
    • G02F1/133—Constructional arrangements; Operation of liquid crystal cells; Circuit arrangements
    • G02F1/1333—Constructional arrangements; Manufacturing methods
    • G02F1/1335—Structural association of cells with optical devices, e.g. polarisers or reflectors
    • G02F1/1336—Illuminating devices
    • G02F1/133615—Edge-illuminating devices, i.e. illuminating from the side
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
    • G07F17/32—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for games, toys, sports, or amusements
    • G07F17/3202—Hardware aspects of a gaming system, e.g. components, construction, architecture thereof

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Abstract

A gaming machine includes a liquid crystal display having a liquid crystal panel and a light guiding plate placed at the rear of the liquid crystal panel and formed with a light deflection pattern for guiding light emitted from illumination means into the liquid crystal panel, and a variable display device placed at the rear of the liquid crystal display and having a plurality of reels provided in a row. Parts of the light guiding plate to which the reels are opposed are made light transmission areas. The light guiding plate is formed with a first light deflection pattern on the periphery of the light transmission areas and is formed with a second light deflection pattern in a portion more distant from the light transmission areas than the first light deflection pattern. The first light deflection pattern is denser than the second light deflection pattern.
EP06013264A 2003-05-14 2004-03-01 Gaming machine Expired - Lifetime EP1719548B1 (en)

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JP2003136632 2003-05-14
EP04004751A EP1477209B1 (en) 2003-05-14 2004-03-01 Gaming machine

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EP1719548A3 true EP1719548A3 (en) 2008-03-26
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CN (2) CN102136169B (en)
AT (1) ATE335527T1 (en)
AU (1) AU2004200823B2 (en)
DE (2) DE602004001806T2 (en)
ES (1) ES2270200T3 (en)
SI (1) SI1477209T1 (en)
ZA (1) ZA200401672B (en)

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CN102136169A (en) 2011-07-27
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ES2270200T3 (en) 2007-04-01
AU2004200823A1 (en) 2004-12-02
CN1550247A (en) 2004-12-01
ZA200401672B (en) 2004-09-01
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SI1477209T1 (en) 2007-02-28
CN102136169B (en) 2013-02-20
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